NEW NONPROFITS TO PARTICIPATE AS ENTREPRENEURIAL INITIATIVE EXPANDS This media announcement was created as a blog for The Patterson Foundation's Initiative News published on August 18, 2016. A new group of entrepreneurial nonprofits from Manatee, Sarasota and Charlotte counties will participate in an 18-month initiative designed to build capacity, boost revenue, and strengthen mission impact through the development and implementation of earned-income strategies. After launching a successful earned-income initiative benefiting regional nonprofits in 2015, The Patterson Foundation is expanding the reach of Margin & Mission Ignition to help more organizations in our region strengthen their missions through entrepreneurial strategies. As of July, the group of nonprofits participating in the 2015-2016 initiative earned a combined $259,813.35 in revenue to support their missions.
EPILEPSY ASSOCIATION OF CENTRAL FLORIDA LAUNCHES EPILEPSYSTORE.COM TO GROW MARGIN AND MISSION This testimonial was created as a guest blog for The Patterson Foundation's Initiative News published on June 4, 2015. Editor’s Note: Charles "Chuck" Carmen, Executive Director of the Epilepsy Association of Central Florida in Orlando, Florida, shares the impact of No Margin, No Mission's earned-income business planning process. The Epilepsy Association of Central Florida is a 50+ year-old, 100% local, not-for-profit healthcare agency based in Orlando. Over time, we had become far too dependent on our contract with the Florida Department of Health, which is funded by state general revenue dollars and could be lost during any legislative session. We ...
A STRONGER HEALTH COUNCIL OF SOUTHEAST FLORIDA THROUGH EARNED INCOME This testimonial was created as a guest blog for The Patterson Foundation's Initiative News published on May 27, 2015. Editor’s Note: Andrea Stephenson, Executive Director of Health Council of Southeast Florida in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida, shares the impact of No Margin, No Mission's earned-income business planning process. Times are challenging for nonprofits! We are grappling with dwindling donor bases and the availability of fewer grant dollars. We are “competing” with other organizations for our “fair share of the market.” And, we are being called on to do more, serve more, deliver more, and accomplish even more significant outcomes…with less! Suffice it to say, times ...
A SHIFT AT MARIE SELBY BOTANICAL GARDENS This testimonial was created as a guest blog for The Patterson Foundation's Initiative News published on May 20, 2015. Editor’s Note: Cathy Layton, Board Chair of Marie Selby Botanical Gardens in Sarasota, Florida, shares the impact of No Margin, No Mission's earned-income business planning process. I have a number of wise friends in my life. One of them, Rob Lane — a CPA, but better known as a dedicated community activist, said something that was like a whack on the head: “Nonprofit is not a business model. It is a tax status.”
GUEST POST: Learning and Sharing with The Patterson Foundation THINK OF STARTUP CAPITAL BEFORE STARTING A NONPROFIT EARNED-INCOME VENTURE Posted May 13, 2015 by Michael Oxman & filed under Margin & Mission Ignition. Editor’s Note: Michael Oxman and Larry Clark are the co-founders, managing partners and principals of No Margin, No Mission.™ The Patterson Foundation is partnering with this national consulting firm and social enterprise on the foundation’s new Margin & Mission Ignition Initiative. Startup business ventures – whether for-profit or nonprofit — come in all shapes and sizes, and almost always require some sort of capital to help launch the enterprise and get it off the ground. Whether starting ...
GUEST POST: Learning and Sharing with The Patterson Foundation 5 CHARACTERISTICS NONPROFITS SHOULD CONSIDER BEFORE JUMPING INTO EARNED INCOME Posted March 30, 2015 by Michael Oxman & filed under Margin & Mission Ignition, No Margin, No Mission. Editor’s Note: Michael Oxman and Larry Clark are the co-founders, managing partners and principals of No Margin, No Mission.™ The Patterson Foundation is partnering with this national consulting firm and social enterprise on the foundation’s new Margin & Mission Ignition Initiative. There is frequently a tendency for people to want to “jump into” those activities that offer potentially lucrative opportunities for financial growth. By jumping in, however, they may fail to consider whether or not they are actually prepared to pursue such an endeavor. For nonprofit organizations, earned income is an activity that increasingly fits such a ...
GUEST POST: Learning and Sharing with The Patterson Foundation NONPROFITS INVITED TO UNLEASH ENTREPRENEURIAL POTENTIAL Posted January 21, 2015 by Michael Oxman & filed under Margin & Mission Ignition, No Margin, No Mission. Editor’s Note: Michael Oxman and Larry Clark are the co-founders, managing partners and principals of No Margin, No Mission.™ The Patterson Foundation is partnering with this national consulting firm and social enterprise on the foundation’s new Margin & Mission Ignition Initiative. Calling all nonprofit leaders, board members, and staffers … • Is your organization striving to balance the increased demand for services with the challenges of reduced available funding and capacity to do the work? • Does your agency find itself overly reliant on grants and donations that could make your balance ...
GUEST POST: Learning and Sharing with The Patterson Foundation EMPOWERING WOMEN DRIVES COURAGEOUS NONPROFIT COLLABORATION Note: This article was written by Laurel Lynch, Executive Director/CEO of HOPE Family Services, for The Patterson Foundation Enhancing Impact Blog and was posted on December 10, 2015 and filed under No Margin, No Mission. Collaboration…it sounds so easy, so efficient, so logical; then why don’t more not for profit organizations with similar missions do it? Because, what sounds so simple, actually, is anything but. Now, thanks to The Patterson Foundation and No Margin, No Mission, (a national consulting firm helping nonprofit organizations craft business plans), the CEOs and boards of HOPE Family Services (HOPE) and the Women’s Resource Center of Manatee ...
GUEST POST: Learning and Sharing with The Patterson Foundation FLORIDA FUNDERS GATHER IN SUPPORT OF EARNED INCOME AND ENTREPRENEURIAL SPIRIT AT 2ND SARASOTA FAST PITCH By Michael Oxman and Larry Clark, Co-Founders, Managing Partners, Principals, No Margin, No Mission™ Four Southwest Florida-based philanthropies, plus nearly 50 investors and business leaders, convened in Sarasota recently to watch three mini business plan pitches from nonprofit entrepreneurs in a session likened to a kinder version of Shark Tank. Known as the FAST FOUR, the teams hailed from Bradenton, Myakka City, and Saint Petersburg. The FAST PITCH marked the end of an intense14-week consulting engagement, during which time the nonprofits developed business plans for a revenue-generating product or service as ...
BLOG POST: Learning and Sharing with The Patterson Foundation PREVENT BLINDNESS FLORIDA EXPLORES EARNED INCOME STRATEGIES Note: This article was written by Joanne Olvera Lighter for The Patterson Foundation Enhancing Impact Blog, and was posted on November 5, 2014 and filed under No Margin, No Mission. Prevent Blindness Florida was given the gift of working with No Margin, No Mission, a national consulting practice that helps nonprofits diversify revenue, through a grant from the Allegany Franciscan Ministries Tampa Bay Commission. The challenge for our organization was to reflect our mission – to prevent blindness and preserve sight – and develop high-revenue business strategies with a small, ...
